MegaMillions winning ticket -- share your fantasy

[Anonymous]

I won $12

[Anonymous]

I wouldn't tell a soul, other than my DH and I suppose our accountant.


Quit my job.
Pay off student loans.
Set up trusts for my kids and my nephews.
Buy a new house.
Hire a chef and house keeper.
Buy a vacation home (or two).
Probably buy a new car but nothing crazy. My car is 10 years old so I'm due.
Establish a scholarship at my alma matter.
Travel around the world with my family and friends (not necessarily together).
At some point I'd figure out what else I'd like to do to keep me busy--charity or volunteer work.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:First, each sibling gets $10m so I can focus on other stuff and they will be busy figuring put what yo do with that.

Luckily, I work for a big firm with amazing family office consultants, so I’d call the national leader and set up an appointment for Friday.

Would you mind sharing the name of the firm and who you would recommend?

[Anonymous]

Another person who wouldn't tell a soul. Then we'd build a beach house, quit our jobs, build a school for kids with dyslexia (that offers in person schooling, online schooling and tutoring), open an animal sanctuary, travel...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What would you do if you wont the $880 million winning ticket?

I would start housing the homeless in ways they could handle -- buy a huge campground with a bath house for tents and cabins, and buy small houses or regular houses depending on the person. Some people can't live in normal housing and don't want to. Some are temporarily homeless and need a real place to live.

Scholarships, educational and for camps and sports, etc.

Free daycare for single parents or low income parents who need it. Live-in nanny placements for single parents or low income parents who need it. Free healthy food subscriptions to low income families.

Set up businesses for my kids to run.

Buy a farm.

Make the world my home. But what would be a safe way to stash my money and get to it from anywhere???


What would you do?

Stop working.
Set up huge trust fund for my child.
Get a beach house and a house overseas - pay off and travel between them.
Establish a farm animal sanctuary.
Large donations to charities that are important to me, as well as liberal political candidates.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hire a male escort for my pleasure indefinitely

Damn

[Anonymous]

You guys are nuts. Most of you are just doing home renovations or slightly upgrading your car? That kind of money can change the world for the better.
Find a pet cause: lack of childcare, maternal mortality, weaning dependence off foreign oil, lack of affordable housing, etc, and put your money to work!

You could, using the second example, build a network of postpartum care centers in your state, like they have in South Korea. You could fund studies proving they work and get insurance companies to begin funding them. You could lobby for adoption nationwide.
Or for the third example, you could buy heat pumps and solar panels for all the single family homes in your area that wanted them. You could slap solar panels on all of downtown DC, and still have money to plant a bajillion trees to cool the city down.

Think big!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You guys are nuts. Most of you are just doing home renovations or slightly upgrading your car? That kind of money can change the world for the better.
Find a pet cause: lack of childcare, maternal mortality, weaning dependence off foreign oil, lack of affordable housing, etc, and put your money to work!

You could, using the second example, build a network of postpartum care centers in your state, like they have in South Korea. You could fund studies proving they work and get insurance companies to begin funding them. You could lobby for adoption nationwide.
Or for the third example, you could buy heat pumps and solar panels for all the single family homes in your area that wanted them. You could slap solar panels on all of downtown DC, and still have money to plant a bajillion trees to cool the city down.

Think big!

Ok, but can I tour Italy first?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You guys are nuts. Most of you are just doing home renovations or slightly upgrading your car? That kind of money can change the world for the better.
Find a pet cause: lack of childcare, maternal mortality, weaning dependence off foreign oil, lack of affordable housing, etc, and put your money to work!

You could, using the second example, build a network of postpartum care centers in your state, like they have in South Korea. You could fund studies proving they work and get insurance companies to begin funding them. You could lobby for adoption nationwide.
Or for the third example, you could buy heat pumps and solar panels for all the single family homes in your area that wanted them. You could slap solar panels on all of downtown DC, and still have money to plant a bajillion trees to cool the city down.

Think big!

Ok, but can I tour Italy first?

You could tour Italy simultaneously, you could do all this from your new vacation villa in Tuscany! Because with 1 billion dollars, you've hired a staff to handle all this for you. It's big, big money, folks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You guys are nuts. Most of you are just doing home renovations or slightly upgrading your car? That kind of money can change the world for the better.
Find a pet cause: lack of childcare, maternal mortality, weaning dependence off foreign oil, lack of affordable housing, etc, and put your money to work!

You could, using the second example, build a network of postpartum care centers in your state, like they have in South Korea. You could fund studies proving they work and get insurance companies to begin funding them. You could lobby for adoption nationwide.
Or for the third example, you could buy heat pumps and solar panels for all the single family homes in your area that wanted them. You could slap solar panels on all of downtown DC, and still have money to plant a bajillion trees to cool the city down.

Think big!

Ok, but can I tour Italy first?

You could tour Italy simultaneously, you could do all this from your new vacation villa in Tuscany! Because with 1 billion dollars, you've hired a staff to handle all this for you. It's big, big money, folks.

This. There's all those memes - Jeff Bezos could end world hunger and still have x billion dollars left over. Maybe you'd have enough just to end hunger in your state but you could make a huge difference. I'd be setting up a foundation and calling the ex-Mrs. Bezos and ask her for advice on how to give it away (from my house in Tuscany.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why would you give the money to a wealth manager?

That's like saying "I'll donate $100 million charity and another $5 million to some guy working for Merrill Lynch."

If you have half a billion dollars, you don't need to invest.

So that the half billion continues to grow for your kids/grandkids

That's enough wealth to last many lifetimes if managed correctly

In other words, "I would use the money to destroy the lives of my progeny for the next few generations."

[Anonymous]

In no particular order: three nannies - one of day, one for night, one for weekend. 10mm house on woodland drive, 10mm ski house in Aspen, 20mm beach house on Nantucket. Get my kids into fancy private schools. Upgrade my car, nothing insane but a luxury suv with leather seats. Pay off student loans for friends, coworkers and family. Get some friends set up with down payments for houses in dc. Make a large donation to the local non profit my hypocritical, awful ex boyfriend from college works at so he knows I hit it big. Other charity I care about. Go pretty woman style at neiman marcus. Luxury trips with just husband, with my kids, with good girlfriends from college.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You guys are nuts. Most of you are just doing home renovations or slightly upgrading your car? That kind of money can change the world for the better.
Find a pet cause: lack of childcare, maternal mortality, weaning dependence off foreign oil, lack of affordable housing, etc, and put your money to work!

You could, using the second example, build a network of postpartum care centers in your state, like they have in South Korea. You could fund studies proving they work and get insurance companies to begin funding them. You could lobby for adoption nationwide.
Or for the third example, you could buy heat pumps and solar panels for all the single family homes in your area that wanted them. You could slap solar panels on all of downtown DC, and still have money to plant a bajillion trees to cool the city down.

Think big!

Yes but you should not go straight into that with that much money. You would be walking billboard for embezzlement and fraud. You would need to start a foundation and get people around you that are within that particular industry. Nothing should be done in haste. And most people are simple people. I would get a new car but donate my car but again, all in good concern- if you donate it to a needy family how do you that without causing more financial woes- gas, registration fees, taxes, etc.

[Anonymous]

I don't know. I would move so far away from Mont County (where I live now). While I like our home, Mont. County is slowly sucking the life out of me.

Mountain house, beach house, country house, even a city house (in a small city -- more like 150,000 or 200,000 population). These all sound good. Stay in the US, though.

[Anonymous]

I would get a nice house and a divorce.